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Word: kneeings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather golfer," drawled Beverly, "but thanks to this dandy underwear, I've had a very good winter." Right behind her, only a stroke off, plodded the broad-beamed champion herself-affable Patty Berg, 40, seven-time winner and still favorite despite a painful trick knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies' Day | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...intervene on July 6, 1918, the U.S. commitment was mainly limited to "aiding the Czechs against German and Austrian prisoners" and "guarding the military stores at Kola," a village near Murmansk. (There were no military stores at Kola.) When a battalion of U.S. doughboys slogged into combat positions in knee-deep water 100 miles from Archangel, posters provided by British General Headquarters proclaimed that their enemies were Bolsheviks-"soldiers and sailors who, in the majority of cases are criminals . . . Their natural, vicious brutality enabled them to assume leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History's Lost Opportunity | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...line": narrow shoulders, shaped bodice and a loose flow with an easy swing ("trapeze") from solar plexus to kneecaps. Like such other top designers as Guy Laroche, Jean Dessės and Lanvin-Castillo, who showed their wares last week, Saint-Laurent has gone to work on the billowy, knee-hobbling chemise-sack dress, the first big change in female fashions since the New Look in 1947. Some made it slimmer, some wider, most flared the hemline and shortened it until it barely covers the knees. Fashion writers hailed Saint-Laurent for bringing a new feminine dimension to the sack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: The Word Is Chemise | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...Noble, wrestling at 157, won his first two matches, including a fall and a 1-0 decision over Yale's Bill Collins. However, in his quarterfinal match, Noble lost to Joe Seckler of Penn State, wrestling unattached, 7 to 5. When Seckler injured his knee, he was unable to continue in the meet, depriving Noble of a chance to enter the consolation rounds. To continue after a loss, the loser's opponent must advance into the semi-finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Place Ninth In Vacation Tourney; Foster Takes Fourth | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Star-Spangled Banner and La Marseillaise. As he slowly trooped the line of a 280-man French air force honor guard, reporters noted that he seemed to be dragging his left foot, just slightly. Explained his physician, Dr. Howard McC. Snyder: "Sometimes he has that West Point [football] knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Return to Paris | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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